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Originally Posted by GreenMonkey
I don't know about linear feet, but I used to have three very full 5-6 shelf bookshelves. Since I've been liquidating paperbacks for ebooks I could probably get that down to two bookshelves.
I don't buy a lot of books - only my favorite authors / favorite books. Even before ebooks really started catching on, I was migrating my favorite paperbacks to hardcovers and getting rid of a lot of paperbacks. Now I work on migrating lesser-liked paper books (or books with no hardcovers) to ebooks, and my favorites, to getting in hardcover.
Space isn't really an issue for me - I don't live in a big city. Besides, I don't collect video games or CDs, or DVDs much any more - sold a lot over the years, tight budget - so I'm using less storage space over time, really.
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I don't think it will make any difference to my comment, but I was looking for a number that would come from the total you got by taking a tape measure or yard stick and measuring the width of each individual shelf on each book case and totaling it.
For example that might be 3 (bookcases) times 5 shelves (on each bookcase) times 3 1/2 feet (width of each shelf) = 52.5 linear feet of book space.
I agree that is not that great an amount of space.